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261. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 7 > Issue: 2
Jennifer L. Sweatman There Are 2 Sexes: Essays in Feminology
262. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Birgit M. Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele Returning (to) the Question of the Human: An Introduction
263. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Max Hantel What Is It Like to Be a Human?: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoiesis
264. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Vicki Kirby Originary Humanicity: Locating Anthropos
265. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
William M. Paris Humanism’s Secret Shadow: The Construction of Black Gender/Sexuality in Frantz Fanon and Hortense Spillers
266. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Denise Ferreira da Silva Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique
267. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Birgit M. Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele If You Do Well, Carry! The Difference of the Humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger
268. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Tjalling R. Valdés Olmos The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
269. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Sarah Ensor Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
270. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Inge Mathijssen Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
271. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Alexis Shotwell Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
272. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Jessica Polish Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives
273. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Greta LaFleur Material Ecocriticism
274. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Alyson Cole, Kyoo Lee Coeditors’ Introduction: Retro III: As We Restart
275. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Brady Heiner Shackling Pregnant Women: US Prisons, Anti-Blackness, and the Unfinished Project of American Abolition
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This article analyzes the pervasive practice in US carceral institutions of shackling incarcerated pregnant women during childbirth and postpartum. After a review of bioethical, civil, and human rights norms, which widely condemn the practice, I advance an interpretation of the social meaning of shackling imprisoned pregnant women and its persistence despite widespread normative consensus in favor of its abolition. Two arguments regarding the persistence of the practice are considered: (1) that it stems from the unthinking exportation of prison rules to a hospital setting and (2) that it is the product of an androcentric approach to punishment and carceral health care ill-adapted to women’s needs. I argue that these explanatory frameworks are inattentive to the intersecting genealogies of race and gender that are constitutive of the practice. As a result, the prescriptive horizons that these frameworks delineate are inad­equate to the race- and gender-specific task of redress. Drawing from Black feminist theory and Nietzsche, I argue that the practice of shackling impris­oned pregnant women, like many ostensibly race-neutral facets of American mass incarceration, is a sedimentation of slavery that impacts all incarcerated women. The practice is symptomatic of the persistent anti-Blackness of the criminal legal system and the unfinished project of American abolition.
276. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Annette-Carina van der Zaag Touching Wounds: On the Fugitivity of Stigma
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What if our politics are shaped by the texture of wounds rather than the identity of selves? What possible future will have been opened up by posing that very question? I take up Eve Sedgwick’s invitation to begin with stigma “as a near-inexhaustible source of transformational energy” for a transformative queer politics and elaborate Sedgwick’s attention to spoiled identity through Hortense Spiller’s conceptualization of the flesh. The flesh substantiates the grounds for a materialist ontology that begins with stigma, the materiality of the wound, to constitute a transformative politics toward a fugitive elsewhere. Reading Sedgwick and Spillers together opens up a transformative ontological register that spans the material, affective, and fugitive. I argue that the hieroglyphics of the flesh give us knowledge of ourselves and others and the world(s) we have lived through but also invite us to transform who and what we are, how we relate, and what a world might look like where our being is not constituted by fugitive survival. I suggest that such hieroglyphics can be engaged by touching wounds understood as a haptic reading of textures impressed on our embodied being while paying attention to the lines of flight that erupt from the wound.
277. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Ghalya Saadawi Critical Incision: Hypochondria, Autotheory, and the Health-Illness Dialectic
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The hypochondriac feels ill, is reminded they are always ill, and is always told they are never ill because they’re a hypochondriac. They get better, only to read their symptoms as illness again, in a health-illness dialectic that undermines the medical, clinical, or social cure. The social figure of hypochon­dria embodies the relation between the health-illness of the psyche and the health-illness of the world, as a figure of critique and a coming of age with it. By its very structure, hypochondria is a critical incision in the health-illness and mind-body divides, and it is also a metaphor for a broader modern illness. This essay investigates histories of hypochondriacal symptoms and hypochondria as a historical symptom of the modern condition, that birthed it. Additionally, I include autotheoretical fragments—a historically recurring and amenable form to hypochondria—to better theorize hypochondria’s immanent critique of clinical and medical (un)certainty. Foregrounding the contradiction of a body trying to protect and a body trying to kill, a body lived as an outside threat and a body lived as an inside to protect, the hypochondriac becomes a dialectical diagnostician of what it may mean to seek health in sickness if health is not cure but recurring symptom, struggle, and overcoming.
278. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Na-Young Lee Multiple Encounters and Reconstructed Identities: Halmoni Activist-Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery as Postcolonial Subjects
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This paper explores multiple encounters between activist-survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery (“comfort women” or halmonis, meaning “elderly women” or “grannies” in Korean) and solidarity activists. I mainly focus on the stories of two foundational figures in the ongoing justice campaign for the survivors, both of whom faced that forceful military act (between 1932 and 1945) as teenage girls in colonized Korea, although in dramatically different ways: Yun Chung-ok, a leading scholar and activist who, having managed to escape the fate of many other peers, first spoke out about Japanese military sexual slavery, and Kim Bok-dong, a survivor and human rights activist. This paper will address the multiple encounters and dialogues of memories to resituate subjects, which led to overcoming personal trauma and reaching out to others and continues to drive the redress movement. Drawing on oral history interviews, feminist ethnography, and various documented resources including survivors’ testimonies, which have been archived for around twenty years as part of my own scholar-activist work, I juxtapose these women’s lives to show how a community of responsibility has been formed to decolonize androcentric history. The women involved in the movement for the resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue reinterpreted their experiences as having been formed by imperialism, colonialism, and patriarchy. While caring for and healing with one another, they suggested the possibility of a new subject formation. Through mutually constructed identities, activist-survivors broke away from social stigma and became agents who led transformation of a postcolonial society.
279. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Alisse Waterston Just Imagine
280. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Kazim Ali Run Away from History